https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230859 Summary: sky2 driver hangs the machine Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: digulla@hepe.com QAContact: qa@suse.de I have an Asus P5WDG2 WS PRO) with two ethernet chips: 01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8052 PCI-E ASF Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 21) The first chip is connected to eth0 and uses the skge driver. The second one is eth1 and uses the sky2 driver. Eth0 is my internal network, eth1 is connected to my internet router. After 4h to 6 days, I'll see this in my console (Alt-F10): sky2: eth1 tx timeout After that, the machine hangs. I cannot connect to it via eth0 anymore. I cannot switch consoles and I cannot login. All that still works is SysRq or a reboot. Googling for "sky2 tx timeout" returns a whole lot of mails which suggest that there is a bug in the sky2 driver. In http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg28417.html you can read that the bug is still in 2.6.18 but I don't know if SuSE uses a specially patched driver. Here is a discussion on the netdev list about a sky2 hang: http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg28373.html But it doesn't seem to lock up the whole machine (users could unload the network driver). Since this is a RAID server, I'm quite desperate for a solution for this problem. I'll run a test with lots of network traffic to see if I can reproduce the problem somehow. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.